Kafka CDC Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Kafka CDC Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Debezium CDC, and Oracle. The candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines, enabling data movement from Oracle databases to Kafka and downstream platforms such as Databricks/Data Lakes.

The ideal candidate should have strong understanding of Kafka topics, source/destination connectivity, event/data handling, schema evolution, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and configure Debezium CDC for capturing changes from Oracle 19c/21c logs and APIs.


• Configure Kafka Connect and Debezium connectors for Oracle-to-Kafka data pipelines.


• Design and configure Apache Kafka topics to capture and distribute database change events.


• Manage CDC event flow from Oracle tables → Debezium → Kafka topics → downstream systems.


• Configure and troubleshoot source and destination connections for Kafka-based data pipelines.


• Integrate Kafka CDC pipelines with Databricks, Data Lake, and other downstream data platforms.


• Handle schema evolution, data validation, data consistency, and transformation requirements.


• Monitor Kafka topics, connectors, consumer/producer activity, and CDC pipelines in production.


• Troubleshoot production incidents related to Kafka, Debezium, Kafka Connect, Oracle connectivity, offsets, lag, and data discrepancies.


• Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for production issues.


• Optimize Kafka and CDC pipeline performance, throughput, and reliability.


• Develop and maintain SQL/PLSQL and Shell scripts for data validation, automation, and operational activities.


• Work with Linux environments for deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation.


• Collaborate with application, database, cloud, and data engineering teams to ensure reliable end-to-end data flow.

Mandatory Skills

• 5–8 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering / Streaming / CDC.


• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.


• Strong experience with Debezium CDC.


• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect.


• Experience implementing Oracle-to-Kafka CDC pipelines.


• Strong understanding of Kafka topics, partitions, offsets, producers, consumers, and event processing.


• Experience with Oracle 19c/21c.


• Strong SQL/PLSQL skills.


• Good experience with Linux and Shell Scripting.


• Experience in production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA.


• Strong understanding of source-to-target data flow and connectivity.


• Experience with data validation and schema evolution.

Preferred Skills

• Databricks / Data Lake


• AWS


• Kubernetes


• Confluent Platform


• CI/CD


• Experience with Kafka monitoring and performance tuning.


• Experience integrating Kafka CDC with cloud-based data platforms.